Then you need to put in this code:
SimileAjax.WindowManager._cancelPopups = function() {
// don't do anything
};
Cheers,
David
Yee-Ting Li wrote:
> thanks David, that worked like a charm.
>
> to give some background to my next question: i have a popup with
> shows graphs of the utilisation of router ports. i would like to be
> able to control the time range of these graphs with a drop down list
> using the standard html <select><option/></select> and some backend
> javascript.
>
> however, because the bubble closes if you click anywhere within it,
> the drop down list becomes useless as the bubble closes as soon as i
> let go of the mouse.
>
> is there an option to only close the bubble when the 'close' icon is
> clicked on within the bubble?
>
> also, for the type of information that i am presenting, it is useful
> to have multiple popup bubbles with different content within each
> one. is this possible within exhibit?
> thanks,
>
> Yee.
>
> On 25 Jul 2007, at 06:32, David Huynh wrote:
>
>
>> Yee-Ting Li wrote:
>>
>>> great, thanks David - that helped a lot.
>>>
>>> on a related matter, is there a way i can define the size of the
>>> popup? because i'm including graphs in the popup bubble, they are
>>> often larger than the default size of the popup and hence i have to
>>> scroll to see them...
>>>
>>>
>> Yee, unfortunately there is no setting for that in version 1.0 (there
>> will be in 2.0). For now, you can override the size with some
>> javascript
>> code that you include after you include exhibit-api.js.
>>
>> <script>
>> Exhibit._Impl.prototype.showItemInPopup = function(itemID, elmt) {
>> var coords = SimileAjax.DOM.getPageCoordinates(elmt);
>> var bubble = SimileAjax.Graphics.createBubbleForPoint(
>> document,
>> coords.left + Math.round(elmt.offsetWidth / 2),
>> coords.top + Math.round(elmt.offsetHeight / 2),
>> 400, // px
>> 300 // px
>> );
>>
>> var itemLensDiv = document.createElement("div");
>> var itemLens = new Exhibit.Lens(itemID, itemLensDiv, this,
>> this._configuration);
>> bubble.content.appendChild(itemLensDiv);
>> };
>> </script>
>>
>>
>> You can change where it says 400 and 300.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Yee.
>>>
>>> On 20 Jul 2007, at 18:57, David Huynh wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yee-Ting Li wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks for the reply. i'm not too fussed about duplicating data at
>>>>> the moment, so your first suggestion is a good one. once we get
>>>>> to a
>>>>> production system for our exhibit'd data, then we will consider
>>>>> using
>>>>> version 2... unless there are features in version 2 which may be
>>>>> useful to us now... ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> unfortunately, due to the security sensitive nature of the data we
>>>>> are presenting, we can not provide you a url of our exhibit. :(
>>>>>
>>>>> One feature of exhibit that i do like is the popup lenses that work
>>>>> on the thumbnail views. is there a way i can make this work on the
>>>>> Tabular view? ie if we click on a particular cell, then it will
>>>>> bring
>>>>> up a bubble of other data. i've tried just copy and pasting the
>>>>> relevant code into the Exhibit.TabularView for a ex:role="exhibit-
>>>>> lens", but it doesn't work :(
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> What you need to do is declare the value type of the property (in
>>>> that
>>>> column) to be "item". So you data file will look something like
>>>> this,
>>>> if, say, your data is about products and manufacturers:
>>>>
>>>> {
>>>> items: [
>>>> { "label": "Segway",
>>>> "type" : "Product",
>>>> "manufactured-by" : "Segway Inc.",
>>>> "sold-at" : "Walmart"
>>>> },
>>>> { "label": "Segway Inc.",
>>>> "type": "Company"
>>>> },
>>>> { "label": "Walmart",
>>>> "type": "Company"
>>>> }
>>>> ],
>>>> properties: {
>>>> "manufactured-by" : {
>>>> valueType: "item"
>>>> },
>>>> "sold-at" : {
>>>> valueType: "item"
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> also i'm not completely sure of the syntax of the lens reference:
>>>>> does the <span ex:content="value".> always create a link to the
>>>>> popup
>>>>> of the definition <div ex:role="exhibit-lens">? what if i want more
>>>>> than one type of popup on the same page?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Many lens templates can be defined for different item types, e.g.,
>>>>
>>>> <div ex:role="exhibit-lens" ex:itemTypes="Product"> ... </div>
>>>>
>>>> <div ex:role="exhibit-lens" ex:itemTypes="Company"> ... </div>
>>>>
>>>> Version 2.0 will be more flexible.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps,
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
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